High
Security advisory
The F5 BIG-IP Controller for Kubernetes 1.0.0-1.5.0 (k8s-bigip-crtl) passes BIG-IP username and password as command line parameters, which may lead to disclosure of the credentials used by the container.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-5543
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The F5 BIG-IP Controller for Kubernetes 1.0.0-1.5.0 (k8s-bigip-crtl) passes BIG-IP username and password as command line parameters, which may lead to disclosure of the credentials used by the container.
osv:CVE-2018-5543
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:01.674178140Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K58935003"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439840,
"published_at": "2018-07-31T14:29:00.857+00:00"
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